To be honest. I'm ripping those boys open.
To me the beauty of the 3 3/4 is that they I can play with them so not keeping these carded. That's what i love about the smaller 3 3/4 size. you get the vehicles as well. I just can't see a huge line of 6" vehicles. If your going to do classic o-ring you need vehicle support.
My only concern is that I won't be able to actually keep up to this line. Just no more money unless i sell my LotR figures but they pretty much can be sold for what I bought them all those years ago...maybe even cheaper. haha.
Anyways how would you guys like to see these released? do you want some cross sell on the back? would you like little pamphlets? How many figures per wave would you release? What years would you focus? what vehicles are a must? Tell me everything you would like to see and at what price point do you see this happening at.
Maybe your LOTR figs will see a bit of an uptick once the Amazon(?) series comes out. That should provide a boost in interest for the franchise in general.
Yeah I am torn of opening the figures. I want to keep them carded, but playability!!!! Anyway I'll probably end up doing the whole "slice the bubble" thing to keep the cardbacks looking nice while still playing with the figures. Although I do know that the carded figures on the secondary market will be going for stupid high prices.
Unfortunately O-ring is going to be Pulse exclusvies only. So no retail support. That limits what/how much product will be made, or released. On the flip side the Joe team did mention that they will be able to do some never before made characters in the line. So a classic ARAH O-ring Kwinn please!!!! Also I would love to see some more cartoon characters that never received a figure. Hopefully Hasbro can find that sweet spot that Super7 seems to know, where you have your expected characters/sellers, and throw in the "out of left field" choices no one expects.
Oh, also give me a multi-pack set of Cold Slither!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As for vehicles, I don't expect anything new, except through Haslab, unless the line does extremely well. It just isn't cost effective for Hasbro to make new molds for a Pulse only line. So I expect to see a lot of rehashing of vehicles in the future. So whatever they released in the 25th/ME line that can be ported over to the vintage O-ring line.
Let's just hope they get that this new O-ring line is similar to the Masters Of The Universe: Origins line for fans. Basically a slightly modernized release of the classic toys. So sorry, but I don't want the updated Fang, Skyhawk, Firebat, etc. with the extra parts, updated designs. I want the classic molds to go with the new classic figures. Update the plastics, or if necessary the designs to prevent breakage. However keep them looking like the originals on the outside as much as possible.
